Chapter 3 The Skeletal System Elements Flashcards
end-
in, within
peri-
surrounding, around
poly-
many, much
ankyl/o
crooked, bent, stiff
arthr/o
joint
chondr/i, chondr/o
cartilage
cost/o
rib
crani/o
cranium, skull
hem/o
blood, relating to blood
ili/o
ilium, flaring hip bone
kyph/o
bent, hump
lamin/o
lamina
lord/o
curve, swayback, bent
myel/o
spinal cord, bone marrow
oss/e, oss/i ost/o, oste/o
bone
pod/o
foot
sacr/o
sacrum
scoli/o
curved, bent
spondyl/o
vertebrae, vertebral column, backbone
synovi/o, synov/o
synovial membrane, synovial fluid
-ago
abnormal condition, disease
-al
pertaining to
-algesia, -algesic
painful, pain sense
-clasis, -clast
break down
-desis
to bind, tie together
-iatrist
specialist
-itis
inflammation
-listhesis
slipping
-lysis
breakdown, separation, setting free, destruction, loosening
-malacia
abnormal softening
-necrosis
abnormal tissue death
-oma
tumor, neoplasm
-otomy
cutting, surgical incision
-pathy
disease, suffering, feeling, emotion
-penia
deficiency, lack, too few
-poiesis
formation, to make
-rrhaphy
surgical suturing
-sclerosis
abnormal hardening
-scopy
visual examination
-stenosis
abnormal narrowing
-um
thing, singular noun ending